While mining houses celebrate record breaking profits, Boitumelo Ramokgwatheng is watching the earth swallow her community.

In Khutsong, the ground is collapsing faster than authorities can respond. Multiple sinkholes remain unrepaired, including one that swallowed a home and forced the closure of the Khutsong West Clinic as instability spread through the area. Despite the escalating danger across the Merafong region, now recognised as facing a disaster level dolomitic collapse, calls for national intervention and a formal disaster declaration remain unresolved.

Boitumelo, Khutsong Community Coordinator, captures the urgency bluntly:

“Today you can have a home and tomorrow you cannot. They promised to rehabilitate the area, but they’re not.”

Khutsong is now in the grip of a health, housing, and safety emergency. Residents live with daily risk as sinkholes deepen, homes crack, services collapse, and basic infrastructure fails. After years of petitions and pleas to Parliament, families remain stranded beside active collapse zones, waiting for the intervention that never comes.

Our AR enhanced video brings journalists directly into this reality, the ground rupturing beneath residents’ feet, homes breaking apart, and promises disappearing into the cavities left behind.